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People are gasping for Oxygen

September 12, 2007

Let the bad puns begin! A few notes about how one of our Pillars of KDE is turning people into Gearhead converts:

1) I’ve already given Nuno some personal feedback on these images, but now that every meal he eats seems to be covered on Digg…I’m really a big fan of his recent work as shown in this working directory (listed on his blog). I’m just another person with another opinion, but to be fair, I’ve heard rumors that my opinion is worth 7-8 opinions of the commoners. So it’s more like a small group consensus. A small good looking popular group consensus (like a party of Zacks in a smallish London flat). We’ve got some subtle gradients, some nice shadows, some sexy drop-down menus, it’s thoughtful already – especially for a proof of concept. Let’s assume the drop-down has some fun japanimations or effects. Let’s see how it evolves. I’m curious if the green progress bar might pulse or slide or spiral or glow, these are the things that keep me up at night.

2) Speaking of opinions, the recent forum entries on “All Things Oxygen” is why it’s best to leave the decision making to the experts (aka the artists). It’s either too much like Apple or not enough or too much like Vista or too drab or too vibrant or not photorealistic enough or not enough like Clear Looks or doesn’t smell like strawberries. At least the deafening volume of commentary shows the passion and anticipation.

3) I’m also interested (like many I’m sure) in the results of their wallpaper contest. I have larger monitors so I’m glad they asked for submissions bigger than 640X480. 1900 entries in the contest according to kwwii’s blog? There can’t be more than two or three hundred lolcat entries from Daniel Duley, can there? I’m also glad they’re asking for SVG wallpapers. I never really feel like we have enough of those. IIRC I was involved with Ye Ole 3.4 SVG wallpaper contest and really, really enjoyed the winning results. I still use this one from time to time:

4) Where’s Ruphy? I hope poor Davigno found his sidekick. It tells you how close the communities are when after a week or two it’s time to file a Missing Persons Report and start laying on the guilt.

5) I’ve seen adapations on Oxygen work for both KDE 3.5 as well as gnome on various sites. I appreciate people’s enthusiasm but I’m curious on the opinions of the Oxygen team. I think I know, and the fact that they’ve just remained silent says more than enough to me. Respect their work and don’t steal their thunder.

6) I haven’t heard about usability thoughts on the recent widgets and window decoration proposals. Any feedback?

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22 Responses to “People are gasping for Oxygen”

Hi Wade. I think Nuno & the oxygen team are artistic geniuses, but I was wondering if you could use your 7x persuading power to change the default gradient color from gray to light blue? I’m sure they’re working the whole time and cooking up a storm, but it would be good to move away from the gray and have some more blue in our lives. After all, isn’t blue the colour the KDE logo?

Hey 🙂 Thanks a lot on your input. Its great.
The wallpapers we narrowed it down to 16 Riccardo (yes we have our boy back), is now mailing the winners in order to get everything clear, we must be extra sure on the license sizes and so on, without any doubt kde 4 will have the best set of wallpapers ever ,and quite possibly the best in the marquees, (yes that good).
The theme and panel and usability options, well lots of input so far is incredible how much this sturns people and the community, most input so far is incredibly positive so i think i will continue to sturn things up with more “pretty pictures”.
The rip offs well we cant do much about it in the older days we mailed the people that did such things and they drooped it “only for kde 4” used to work but seems some really want it out… We cant be to mad about it as some of this people are fans of the oxygen work.
As for opinions we like to get them well do tell them all al the time i don’t like repeating myself, one of the main reasons for may latest blog entries was just that showing some stuff that clearly pointed were we are going and what needs to be done, so i get more usable feedback and possibly one or 2 more developers into oxygen ;).

We cant couse its already in kde Svn must be well licenced…As i said it not a proble of beeing able to do it or not! ofcourse you can.
Its a mater of doing what is beter for KDE. and politeness i gess, wen we ask to remove that content we explain all those issuestil now people fully understod. The personal hype one might get for doing that is on a second level wen compared to the love for KDE. But some people dont think so.

Hey i can understand wanting to do it i would 2. 🙂 but please dont do it for KDE sake.

I’m very happy that the development of my favorite DE is open like this to the community.
A big thank to all dev for their amazing work and showing us the progression.
But (yes, there is always a “but”), I think some comments should also be taken into account. I’m thinking now to the size of the borders. A lot of people complained, finding it too large. It’s not just one or two persons. So, I think it may be good to offer the possibility to reduce them.
I agree some comments are a bit rude, especially when I think of all the work you (devs) do, but sometimes it’s good to listen to some 😉

there seems to be some confusion.
What you gus see in the screnshots are plasmoids not windows….
And they are not that big in real plasmoids they are 9 pixls.
Also in the pannel wen a app is maximised it should go down to 1.

Vista? Cmon apart from the fact that desktop widgets are black i dont see no Vista.
The window style has nothing to do with Vista, a bit Mac i might agrea but Vista???
As a mater of fact i must have not spent more than 10 minutes using Vista so far.
But Vermyndax if yu can be so kind to explain me were did We styleed it after Vista?